The 1923 Stanley Cup Finals was contested by the NHL champion Ottawa Senators and the WCHL champion Edmonton Eskimos, the previous WCHL-PCHA playoff format was abandoned, and the Ottawa Senators now had to play first the PCHA champion Vancouver Maroons, followed by the WCHL champion Edmonton Eskimos in the Final.

This would be the last Final until the 1983 Final to be contested by a team from Edmonton. Both games were played in Vancouver, making this the last Final played entirely at a neutral site (the 1924 and 1925 Finals each featured one neutral site game).

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In the NHL playoff, the Senators defeated the Montreal Canadiens in a 2-game total-goal series by a close 3–2 score in the series.

The playoff format of the previous year where the PCHA champion met the WCHL champion prior to playing the NHL champion was abandoned. Therefore, for this year, the PCHA champions were given the chance to play the NHL champion in a best-of-three series, the Senators then defeated Vancouver 3 games to 1 in the semi-finals.

In the first game, Edmonton was leading 1–0, on a goal by Crutchy Morrison, before Lionel Hitchman scored in the third period to tie the game. Duke Keats of Edmonton was awarded a penalty shot during the game, but failed to score. Cy Denneny scored after two minutes of overtime to win the game for the Senators.[1]

In the second game, the Senators got a first period goal from Harry Broadbent and made it stand to the end of the game, playing six-man defense, the shots were recorded; 21, 14 and 13 for a total of 48 by the Senators, and 25, 18, and 25 for a total of 68 by Edmonton.[2] Several players could not play the whole game, including Eddie Gerard and Georges Boucher. Lionel Hitchman played the game with his broken nose in a plaster. Harry Helman played despite a cut to his face from Frank Nighbor's skates, incurred in practice. Cy Denneny had been cut in the leg by the skate of Vancouver's Smokey Harris.[3] 'Super-sub' King Clancy took a turn in all positions, including goal for Clint Benedict in the third period for two minutes when Benedict was serving a penalty. At the time goalies had to serve their own penalties, this is only time that a player played all six positions in a Stanley Cup Final game.

Coaching and administrative staff:

Stanley Cup engraving

The Senators never did engrave their name on the Cup for their 1923 championship, it was not until the trophy was redesigned in 1948 that the words "1923 Ottawa Senators" was put onto its then-new collar.

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Ottawa Senators (original)
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The Ottawa Senators were a professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a member of the National Hockey League. The club, which was officially the Ottawa Hockey Club, was known by nicknames, including the Generals in the 1890s, the Silver Seven from 1903 to 1907. Generally acknowledged by historians as one of the greatest teams of the early days of the sport. Ottawa HC played in the first season during which the Stanley Cup was challenged in 1893, the club repeated its success in the 1920s, winning the Stanley Cup in 1920,1921,1923 and 1927. In total, the won the Stanley Cup eleven times. In 1950, Canadian sports editors selected the Ottawa HC/Senators as Canadas greatest team in the first half of the 20th century. The club competed in the NHL until the 1933–34 season, when it relocated the NHL franchise to St. Louis, Missouri, the organization continued the Senators as an amateur, and later semi-professional, team in Quebec senior mens leagues until 1954. The Ottawa Hockey Club was founded by a group of like-minded hockey enthusiasts. A month after witnessing games of hockey at the 1883 Montreal Winter Carnival, Halder Kirby, Jack Kerr and Frank Jenkins met, being the first organized ice hockey club in Ottawa, and also the first in Ontario, the club had no other clubs to play that season. The only activities that winter were practices at the Royal Rink starting on March 5,1883, the club first participated competitively at the 1884 Montreal Winter Carnival ice hockey tournament wearing red and black uniforms. Future Ottawa mayor Nelson Porter is recorded as the scorer of the clubs first-ever goal, Frank Jenkins was the first captain of the team, he later became the president of the Hockey Club in 1891 and of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada in 1892. For the 1885 season, the club adopted gold and blue as its colours, Ottawa earned its first-ever victory at the tournament over the Montreal Victorias, but lost its final match to the Montreal Hockey Club to place second in the tournament. The 1886 Montreal tournament was cancelled due to an outbreak of smallpox, on December 8,1886, the first championship league, the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada was founded in Montreal. It was composed of clubs from Montreal plus a Quebec City club. Ottawas Thomas D. Green was named the first president of the league, under the format, Ottawa lost the one challenge it played in that first 1887 season to the Montreal Victorias. After that season, Ottawa HC became inactive, the Royal Rink, which had been their primary facility, had been converted to a roller skating rink, and ice rink facilities were at a shortage. This changed with the opening of the Rideau Skating Rink in February 1889, One of the principal organizers in the restarting of the team was Ottawa Journal publisher P. D. Ross, who also played on the team

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Edmonton Eskimos (ice hockey)
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The Edmonton Eskimos were a Canadian amateur and later professional mens ice hockey team that existed from 1911 to 1927. The Eskimos played for the Stanley Cup against the Ottawa Senators in 1923, the Eskimos defeated the Regina Capitals to win the 1923 WCHL playoffs. They were also the 1923 regular league champions, the Eskimos came in second in the 1922 and 1926 WCHL playoffs. Team alumni include Hockey Hall of Fame members Eddie Shore, Duke Keats, an Edmonton Eskimos team also played in the Alberta Senior Hockey League in the late 1930s. This league folded in 1921, and the Eskimos helped to found the Western Canada Hockey League, in 1922-23, Edmonton would win the WCHL championship and played in the Stanley Cup finals against Ottawa. The Thistle Rink was the home of the Edmonton Eskimos until it burned down in 1912, ken McKenzie List of ice hockey teams in Alberta Team Statistics Jersey photos ASHL Standings from 1938-39, the only season in HockeyDBs records for that era

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Vancouver
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Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, the Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5,400 people per square kilometre. With over 250,000 residents, Vancouver municipality is the fourth most densely populated city in North America behind New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City according to the 2011 census. In that census, Vancouver was one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada, Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city. In 2014, following thirty years in California, the annual TED conference made Vancouver its indefinite home, several matches of the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup were played in Vancouver, including the final at BC Place Stadium. From that first enterprise, other stores and some hotels quickly appeared along the waterfront to the west, Gastown became formally laid out as a registered townsite dubbed Granville, B. I. As of 2014, Port Metro Vancouver is the third largest port by tonnage in the Americas, 27th in the world, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, archaeological records indicate the presence of Aboriginal people in the Vancouver area from 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The city is located in the territories of the Squamish, Musqueam. They had villages in various parts of present-day Vancouver, such as Stanley Park, False Creek, Kitsilano, Point Grey, the city takes its name from George Vancouver, who explored the inner harbour of Burrard Inlet in 1792 and gave various places British names. The explorer and North West Company trader Simon Fraser and his became the first known Europeans to set foot on the site of the present-day city. In 1808, they travelled from the east down the Fraser River, perhaps as far as Point Grey. The Fraser Gold Rush of 1858 brought over 25,000 men, mainly from California, to nearby New Westminster on the Fraser River, on their way to the Fraser Canyon, a sawmill established at Moodyville in 1863, began the citys long relationship with logging. It was quickly followed by mills owned by Captain Edward Stamp on the shore of the inlet. This mill, known as the Hastings Mill, became the nucleus around which Vancouver formed, the mills central role in the city waned after the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s. It nevertheless remained important to the economy until it closed in the 1920s. The settlement which came to be called Gastown grew up quickly around the original makeshift tavern established by Gassy Jack Deighton in 1867 on the edge of the Hastings Mill property

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Denman Arena
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Denman Arena was an indoor arena located in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. The arena was located at 1805 West Georgia Street at the northwest corner with Denman Street and it opened in December 1911 and was destroyed by fire in 1936. Its primary use was for ice sports such as ice hockey and it was the home ice rink of the Vancouver Millionaires professional ice hockey team, and was the location of several Stanley Cup championships. The arena was used for other sports, musical performances. It was a point for Canadian servicemen during World War I. The 10,500 seat arena was the largest in Canada at the time, in January 1911, Joe Patrick sold his Nelson, British Columbia lumber business for $440,000. The Patrick family moved to Victoria and the decision was made to use the proceeds of the sale to go into the business of professional ice hockey. The family built the Denman Arena to support the new Pacific Coast Hockey Association professional ice hockey league, to be run by Joes sons Frank and Lester Patrick. Both Frank and Lester were professional ice hockey players and had played in the National Hockey Association, simultaneously, the Patricks also built the 4000-seat Patrick Arena in Victoria. To build the Vancouver arena, the Patricks bought a parcel of land consisting of thirteen lots from the edge of Coal Harbour to Georgia Street, bounded by Denman. The location was near Stanley Park to the west, and was connected to the business district by a streetcar line along Georgia Street. The site was previously the location of the Kanaka Ranch, which was settled in the 1860s by Hawaiian families, who grew fruit and vegetables, to finance the construction of the Arena, the Patricks formed the Vancouver Arena Company Limited, capitalized at $200,000. The company was divided into 1000 preferred shares and 1000 common shares, the company issued an initial share offering, but by September 1911, the offering had only raised $1400. Two more investors signed on, but it was up to the Paticks to take the rest, the Denman Arena opened on December 20,1911, attracting 1500 people for a session of public ice skating. The Arena was built at a cost of $226,382, in 1927, the Patricks built the 2,500 seat Denman Auditorium next to the Arena. The Auditorium, which was multi-purpose, survived the fire of 1936 and was renovated in 1952 and it re-opened on September 10,1952 as the Georgia Auditorium concert hall. It only lasted seven years before it was demolished in 1959, the Arena was the permanent home of the professional Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. The Arena was also the home of the New Westminster Royals from 1911 until 1914, the Patricks had hoped to set up teams in Calgary and Edmonton in the PCHA for the opening season, but the plans fell through

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Pete Green (ice hockey)
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Peter Pete Green was a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and trainer with the Ottawa Hockey Club/Ottawa Senators. Green won ten Stanley Cup titles in his time with Ottawa,4 as a trainer, Green also was a trainer with the Ottawa Football Club. His sons Oliver and Alex also had fantastic careers, Green won four Stanley Cup titles with the Ottawa Hockey Club in 1903,1904,1905,1906 as a trainer. In 1907 he was promoted to head coach replacing Alf Smith who left join the Kenora Thistles and he helped Ottawa win cups in 1909,1910,1911. He left Ottawa after the 1913 season, however in 1919–20 he was re-hired to coach Ottawa. Green won three more Stanley Cups as a coach in the 1920,1921 and 1923 finals and he died at an Ottawa hospital aged 66 after a short illness on September 22,1934. The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol.1, 1893–1926 inc

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Punch Broadbent
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Harold Lawton Harry Punch Broadbent was a Canadian ice hockey player. Broadbent played for the Ottawa Senators, Montreal Maroons and the New York Americans in the National Hockey Association and he is generally regarded as one of the first true power forwards in NHL history. Broadbent married Leda Fitzimmons and had one daughter, Sally Ann Broadbent, Broadbent was awarded the Military Medal for his service in World War I. The right winger started his career with the Ottawa Senators, then of the National Hockey Association before World War I. He was seventh in the league in scoring his rookie year of 1913 and he scored three goals in the Stanley Cup finals against the Vancouver Millionaires in 1915 before going to the war for three and one-half years. After resuming his career and teaming with forwards Frank Nighbor and Cy Denneny, he starred for the Senators for six more seasons, though he was a holdout for most of the 1921 season, Broadbent came back to win the league scoring title in 1922. He also set a record that season by scoring goals in sixteen consecutive games, the streak began during a 10-0 rout of the Montreal Canadiens on Christmas Eve and lasted through to a 6-6 tie with Canadiens on February 15. As of 2015, it remains the NHL record, in 1925, along with veteran teammate Clint Benedict, Broadbent was sold by Ottawa to the expansion Montreal Maroons. Broadbent was the Maroons leading scorer that first season, including a game against the Hamilton Tigers. In his second season with the Maroons, the team won its first Stanley Cup championship against the Ottawa Senators and he was traded back to the Senators in 1928 with cash for Hooley Smith. He played for the New York Americans in 1929 and retired after that season, Broadbent finished his career with 172 goals and 58 assists in 360 professional games. After his playing career, he coached for years in the Ottawa City Hockey League. He was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962, december 30,1920 - Rights transferred to Hamilton Tigers from Ottawa Senators by NHL with Sprague Cleghorn. Both Broadbent and Cleghorn refused to report, january 4,1921 - Rights traded to Montreal Canadiens by Hamilton Tigers for cash. February 21,1921 - Rights returned to Ottawa Senators by NHL, october 20,1924 - Traded to Montreal Maroons by Ottawa Senators with Clint Benedict for cash. October 7,1927 - Traded to Ottawa Senators by Montreal Maroons with $22,500 for Hooley Smith, october 15,1928 - Traded to New York Americans by Ottawa Senators for $10,000. January 1,1929 - Fined $25 by NHL for trying to start a fight in the penalty box during game with Montreal Canadiens, october 31,1929 - Officially announced retirement. List of members of the Hockey Hall of Fame List of players with 5 or more goals in an NHL game McFarlane, the Story of the National Hockey League

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1922 Stanley Cup Finals
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The 1922 Stanley Cup Final was contested by the National Hockey League champion Toronto St. Pats and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association champion Vancouver Millionaires. The St. Pats defeated Vancouver three games to two in the game series to win their only Stanley Cup as the St. Pats. This was the last Stanley Cup Final contested by a team from Vancouver until 1982, all games were held at Arena Gardens in Toronto. Vancouver finished second overall in the 1921–22 PCHA regular season standings with a 12–12 record, however, they then went on to defeat the 12–11–1 first place Seattle Metropolitans in the PCHA championship series, winning both games by 1–0. After defeating the WCHLs Regina Capitals in the series, the PCHAs Vancouver Millionaires travelled to Toronto for the Final. A fifth and deciding game five was necessary in this series to determine who would win the Cup, after Vancouver won game one, 4–3, Babe Dye scored 4,50 into overtime of game two to give Toronto a 2–1 win. Then in game three, goaltender Hugh Lehman led the Millionaires to a 3–0 shutout win, in this game, star defenseman Harry Cameron suffered a separated shoulder and Toronto asked Frank Patrick for the use of Ottawa defenseman Eddie Gerard and Patrick permitted it. The St. Patricks tied the series in four, 6–0. After this game, Patrick ruled Gerard ineligible, game five belonged to Toronto as Dye scored 4 goals in a 5–1 victory to clinch the Cup. For the series, Dye scored 9 out of the St. Pats 16 goals, † borrowed for one game from Ottawa &-missing from the team picture. @- included on the picture, but never played in the NHL. For reasons unknown, the St. Pats did not engrave their name on the Cup for their 1922 championship and it was not until the trophy was redesigned in 1948 that the words 1922 Toronto St. Pats was put onto its then-new collar in 1948. George ODonoghue was 2nd NHL rookie coach to win the Stanley Cup 1921–22 NHL season 1921–22 PCHA season Bibliography Dan Diamond, the Official National Hockey League Stanley Cup Centennial Book. Podnieks, Andrew, Hockey Hall of Fame

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Stanley Cup Finals
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The Stanley Cup Final in ice hockey is the NHLs championship series to determine the winner of the Stanley Cup, North Americas oldest professional sports trophy. The Stanley Cup was first awarded in 1893, originally a challenge trophy, starting in 1915, the Cup was officially held between the champion of the National Hockey Association and the champion of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. After a series of mergers and folds, it became the championship trophy of the National Hockey League in 1926. Today, the round of the NHLs playoffs is a best-of-seven series played between the champions of the Eastern and Western Conferences. The Stanley Cup was first awarded to the Montreal Hockey Club in 1893 when the won the 1893 AHAC season. The team then had to defend its champion-title both through league championships and challenge games organised by the Stanley Cup trustees, until 1912, these challenges could take place before or during a league season. After 1912, the ordered that challenges only take place after all league games were completed. The series was pre-arranged between the two prior to the season after post-season exhibitions held in the their previous seasons. The inaugural series was to be held in the city of the NHA champion, after the series got under way, there was some concern that the series would not produce an official Stanley Cup champion. The Victoria club had not formally applied to the Stanley Cup trustees to challenge for the Cup, however, on March 18, trustee William Foran stated that it was a misunderstanding. Any tension was disffused as Toronto successfully defended the Cup by sweeping a best-of-five series in three games and this began the end of the influence of the Stanley Cup trustees on the challengers and series for the Cup. Victoria vs. Toronto All games played at Arena Gardens in Toronto, part of their 1913 agreement to set up drafting and player rights ownership, the NHA and PCHA leagues agreed to have their respective champions face each other for the Cup. At the same time, the NHA concluded an agreement with the Maritime Hockey League but the MHL champions abandoned their 1914 challenge. From 1914 onwards, the Stanley Cup championship finals alternated between the East and the West each year, with alternating games played according to NHA and PCHA rules, two years later, the Rosebuds became the first American team to play in the Stanley Cup championship finals. In 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans became the first American team to win the Cup, after that season, the NHA dissolved, and the National Hockey League took its place. In 1919, the Spanish influenza epidemic forced the Montreal Canadiens, the format for the Stanley Cup championship changed in 1922, with the creation of the Western Canada Hockey League. Now three leagues competed for the Cup and this necessitated a series between two league champions, with the third having a bye directly to the finals. In 1924, the PCHA and the WCHL merged to form the Western Hockey League, after winning in the 1924–25 season, the Victoria Cougars became the last team outside the NHL to win the Stanley Cup

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Vancouver Millionaires
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The Vancouver Millionaires were a professional ice hockey team that competed in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the Western Canada Hockey League between 1911 and 1926. Based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, they played in Denman Arena, the first artificial ice surface in Canada, the Millionaires/Maroons succeeded as PCHA champions six times and won the Stanley Cup once, in 1915, against the Ottawa Senators of the NHA. Their jerseys were maroon, featuring a white V with Vancouver spelled down one side of the V, Hall of Famers Fred Cyclone Taylor, Mickey MacKay and Didier Pitre were among the most significant players to don the Millionaires/Maroons uniform in the teams history. Since that time, the Canucks have worn Millionaires throwback uniforms on a few occasions, frank aligned himself with Vancouver, playing for, coaching and managing the team. During his tenure in Vancouver, Taylor tallied 263 points in 131 games, in a best-of-five series played at Denman Arena, the Millionaires swept Ottawa by scores of 6–2, 8–3, and 12–3, Taylor led the team with 6 goals. At the time, it was the furthest west the Cup had been awarded and is Vancouvers only Stanley Cup champion, between 1918 and 1924, Vancouver would win the PCHA title in five of seven seasons. In 1921 and 1922, they were defeated by the Ottawa Senators and Toronto St. Pats in back-to-back Cup Finals, respectively. In 1922, the changed its name to the Vancouver Maroons and. Following the 1923–1924 season, the Maroons were absorbed by the WCHL upon the PCHAs demise, in 1926, the WCHL suffered the same fate of the PCHA, and after fifteen years, the team subsequently folded, as well. In 1999, local star and bodybuilder Jon Mikl Thor started VM Sports. Since there were no genuine Millionaires sweaters in existence since a fire destroyed Denman Arena in 1936, Thor trademarked the Vancouver Millionaires name and the Victory V logo. On May 1,2008, the BC Sports Hall Of Fame was donated one such Millionaires sweater from VM Sports, on October 1,2010 the Vancouver Canucks parent company, Canucks Sports & Entertainment, acquired the Vancouver Millionaires trademark from Thor. That same month, the Canucks unveiled their new third jerseys, in the shortened 2013 season the Vancouver Canucks wore the Millionaires V on their jersey, to honour those whose spirit laid the path they stand on today. On March 2,2014, the Vancouver Canucks wore the Millionaires jersey once more against the Ottawa Senators, who also wore their historic jersey during the 2014 Heritage Classic. In honour of the Millionaires Stanley Cup Victory 100 years prior, the Canucks wore their Maroon and White sweaters in a 4–1 loss at home against the Colorado Avalanche, on March 26,2015

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John Morrison (ice hockey b. 1895)
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John William Crutchy Morrison was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who in eleven years of pro hockey played 339 games, scored 80 goals, with 39 assists for 119 points. He scored Edmontons only goal in the 1923 Stanley Cup Final series versus the Ottawa Senators, born in Selkirk, Manitoba, Morrison played senior hockey for the Selkirk Fishermen, starting in 1913. In 1915, he enlisted with the Canadian Army for World War I duty, before being sent overseas, he played one season for the Winnipeg 61st Battalion to capture the Allan Cup in 1916. After his tour of duty ended in 1919, he played two seasons of senior hockey, with Selkirk in 1919–20 and the Winnipeg Falcons for 1920–21. Morrison joined the Edmonton Eskimos of the WCHL in 1921, in 1923, the Eskimos won the WCHL title and took on the defending Stanley Cup champion Ottawa Senators in Vancouver in a best-of-three series. The Eskimos were stymied by the Senators six-man defense and Morrison scored the only goal. He was picked up by the New York Americans in a trade from Edmonton for the 1925–26 season and he played in 18 NHL games without any goals or points

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Lionel Hitchman
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Frederick Lionel Hitchman was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played twelve seasons in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators and Boston Bruins. The son of Edward F. Hitchman, a noted authority and journalist, Hitchman was born in Toronto. He played his junior hockey with the Toronto Aura Lee club of the Ontario Hockey Association, appearing sporadically in four games in the 1920 season and three the following year. Scoring seven goals, Hitchman gained greater notoriety as a defenceman, amassing 52 penalty minutes. He also saw action with the RCMP team in the Civil Service League, after the end of the New Edinburghs playoffs that season, Hitchman was signed by the Senators in 1923, first appearing in a victory against the Hamilton Tigers on February 28. Cleghorn received a penalty for the act, which provoked a near-riot from the home crowd. While too injured to play in the first Stanley Cup semifinal match against the Vancouver Maroons of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, with the retirement of star defenceman Eddie Gerard, Hitchman became a regular for the Senators thereafter, a starter on the 1924 regular season champion team. He was subsequently loaned to the Bruins for the remainder of the season, matters improved in the 1926 season with the acquisition of Doc Stewart in goal and Hitchmans old nemesis Sprague Cleghorn, with whom he was teamed on defense. The Bruins finished the season with a 13-3-1 run, missing by a single point overtaking the Pittsburgh Pirates for a playoff berth, Hitchman finished third in team scoring, logging seven goals and eleven points, his career high in both categories. Under Cleghorns veteran tutelage, Hitchman adopted a much scrappier style - if without Cleghorns habitual dirty play -, the 1927 season, with the dissolution of the Western Hockey League, saw ex-Edmonton superstar Eddie Shore sign with the Bruins. Shore replaced the fading Cleghorn as Hitchmans defence partner, and was recognized as the leagues preeminent defence pairing. The two would team up for the rest of Hitchmans career, with Shores rushing style paired with Hitchmans stay-at-home play. The Bruins fell to the Senators in the 1927 Stanley Cup Finals, and Hitchmans play was sufficient to receive a $1,400 bonus from the team, Cleghorn retired after the 1928 season, and Hitchman was named to replace him as team captain. His first year as captain was highly successful, as he led the team to its first Stanley Cup championship, with the Bruins defeating the New York Rangers in the finals two games to none. He would become one of the first hockey players to wear a helmet, the helmet was credited with saving Hitchman from serious injury when he was slashed in the head by Montreal Maroons forward Hooley Smith in a subsequent match. Hitchman resigned the captaincy in George Owens favor in 1932, Hitchmans interim stint was marred by a January 24 match against the Canadiens which included stick battles and the referee being knocked unconscious. The match provoked an investigation and a furor played out in the press. This was the last season in which Hitchman served as Shores defence partner, the 1934 season proved his last, and slowed by injuries, he retired mid-season

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Duke Keats
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He was most famous for his time in the WCHL where he was named a First-Team All-Star by the league in each of its five seasons of existence. He won the championship and appeared in the 1923 Stanley Cup Final with the Eskimos. Keats was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958, Keats was born in Montreal, Quebec and at a young age moved with his family to North Bay, Ontario where he was given his nickname of Duke at the age of six. He joined the Cobalt Mining League at the age of 14 and he joined the NHAs Toronto Blueshirts in 1915 and finished fifth in league scoring that year. After playing part of a season with Toronto in 1916–17, he enlisted in the Canadian military and as a member of the 228th Battalion. Keats settled in Edmonton, Alberta after the war and joined the Edmonton Eskimos of the Big-4 League in 1919, officially an amateur league, there were rumours that Keats and several other players were secretly being paid a professional salary to play in the Big-4. The team officially turned professional when it helped form the WCHL in 1921 with Keats as the leagues greatest star and he played for the Eskimos in all five seasons of the leagues existence and was named a First-Team All-Star at centre in each. One of the most gifted players of his time, legend has it that he once collected a puck in his own zone. The Eskimos again finished with the top record in 1922–23. The Eskimos avenged the previous season as Keats scored the winning goal in overtime of the second game. Keats and the Eskimos went on to lose the 1923 Stanley Cup Final to the Ottawa Senators, facing financial ruin, the Eskimos sold the rights to Keats and six other players to the Boston Bruins for $50,000 in 1926. He played half of the 1926–27 NHL season in Boston before he was traded to the Detroit Cougars, along with Archie Briden, in exchange for Frank Fredrickson and Harry Meeking. Keats began the season in Detroit but was suspended early in the season after swinging his stick at a spectator in Chicago who was heckling him. He missed three weeks of play as a result, the day after his reinstatement, the Cougars sent him to the Chicago Black Hawks for Gord Fraser and $5,000 cash. After three games with Chicago in 1928–29, he left the team and helped organize the Tulsa Oilers of the American Hockey Association and he played parts of two more seasons in Tulsa before taking a season off in 1931–32. Keats returned to Edmonton in 1932 as a player, coach and he played two seasons before retiring as a player. Keats was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958, career statistics and player information from Legends of Hockey, or The Internet Hockey Database

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Cy Denneny
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His brother Corbett Denneny also played in the NHL. Cy Denneny was born in Farrans Point, Ontario, near Cornwall and he was the son of James Israel Denneny who was a top lacrosse player in the late 19th century and was descended from the Dennenys of County Monaghan, Ireland. Denneny played senior hockey in Cornwall, starting with the Cornwall Sons of England of the Lower Ottawa Valley hockey league in 1909–10 and his professional playing career began with the Toronto Ontarios/Shamrocks of the National Hockey Association in 1914. He had tried out for the Montreal Canadiens in 1912 but failed to make the team and he was traded to the Ottawa Senators in 1916 and he would play with the Senators until 1928. He was member of four Senators Stanley Cup-winning teams, in 1920,1921,1923 and 1927, with the Senators during the 1917–18 season, Denneny set an NHL record by opening the season with four straight multi-goal games. Though the record still stands, it was tied in 2013 by San Jose Sharks forward Patrick Marleau, Denneny was sold to Boston in 1928, where he would be the playing-coach of the Bruins 1929 Stanley Cup-winner. In 1929, Denneny retired to become an NHL on-ice official, in 1932, he re-joined the Senators as head coach, but the team was in decline due to financial difficulties which forced management to sell top players in order to survive. The team finished last and Denneny was not retained as coach, Denneny was one of the top scorers in the NHL from 1917 through 1925. While leading the league in scoring during the 1923–24 NHL season, he did so by recording 22 goals and one assist for a total of 23 points, when he retired, he was the all-time top scorer in NHL history. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1959, in 1998, he was ranked number 62 on The Hockey News list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players. He was the first and remains the fastest player in NHL history to score 200 goals. During a six-week span in the 1920–21 NHL season, Cy and his brother Corbett, despite not being a swift skater, Denneny had one of the most deceptive and accurate shots in the league, which enabled him to achieve his scoring feats so rapidly. He was one of the first known players to use opposing defencemen as screens, Denneny was also one of the very first players to use a curved blade, which he used to take high-rising shots as well as sinkers that would fool goaltenders. He was a physical player who often acted as a bodyguard for his more passive linemates, Jack Darragh. His first wife Melvina died and Denneny remarried and he was the father of two daughters with his second wife Isobel. After Denneny retired from hockey, he worked for the Canadian federal government and he retired from civil service in 1959. He died on September 10,1970 and is buried in Ottawas Pinecrest Cemetery

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Eddie Gerard
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Edward George Gerard was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada he played professionally for 10 seasons for the hometown Ottawa Senators and was member of several Stanley Cup-winning teams before retiring as a player in 1923. He continued in hockey afterward as a coach until 1935, winning a further Stanley Cup in 1926 and he was regarded as one of the most prominent athletes in Ottawa, active in several sports and was a halfback for the Ottawa Rough Riders football club from 1909 to 1913. When the Hockey Hall of Fame was founded in 1945, Gerard was one of the original 12 players inducted and his father was of Scottish descent. He married Lillian Mackenzie and had two daughters and he worked as a printer and was employed by the Canadian Government Printing Bureau. He moved to the survey in 1912, and at the time of his death was chief engineering clerk for the survey. In November 1913, while still a player, Gerard was approached by several teams in regards to turning professional. He initially had an offer from the Montreal Canadiens of $1,000 for, early in the month the Ottawa Senators offered him a contract of $1,500 for two seasons, which would have made him one of the highest paid players in hockey. He also received an offer from the Sydney Hockey Club from the Maritime Hockey League promised $1,600 for the season, Gerard joined the professional ranks in 1913–14 with the Ottawa Senators, after playing in senior amateur play since 1907 with various Ottawa teams. He had also played football, and gave that up to play with the Senators. One of the highest regarded athletes in Ottawa, he signed with the Senators when they assured him he would be able to keep his government job. When he did sign, he was given a bonus of C$400, in 1915, he was named to the NHA All-Stars which went on a tour in British Columbia to play PCHA teams. Gerard was player-coach of the Senators from 1916 until 1918 and he later served as captain of the Senators from 1919 to 1923. He retired after the 1922–23 season due to a growth, although benign, in his throat, Gerard won four Stanley Cups during his playing career. Three came as a member of the Ottawa Senators and one with the Toronto St. Pats, in game five of the 1921 Stanley Cup Finals, Gerard had six penalties, one of which was a match penalty near the end of the game. Gerard was attending the 1922 Stanley Cup Final, held that year in Toronto when Harry Cameron, vancouver Millionaires Manager Lester Patrick gave permission to Toronto to use Gerard to replace their injured player. Toronto won the game and the series and it was his only game with the St. Pats. After retiring as a player he was the Manager-Coach of the Montreal Maroons from 1924–25 season to 1928–29 season and he resigned from the Maroons, where he never had a formal contract, on July 8,1929

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Frank Nighbor
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An excellent defensive forward, his poke check, backchecking and bodychecking abilities thwarted enemy forwards scoring attempts. For his somewhat high penalty totals, he was a clean player, for his contributions on the ice, Nighbor was the first player ever to be awarded the Hart Trophy and the first to be awarded the Lady Byng Trophy. Nighbor first played professionally for the Port Arthur Bearcats of the Northern Ontario Hockey League in 1911, fellow Pembroke native Harry Cameron was invited to play for Port Arthur but refused to go without Nighbor. The club agreed to bring Nighbor along, but they left him on the bench until injuries gave him an opportunity to play and he made the most of his opportunity by registering six goals in his first appearance. In 1912, he joined the new Toronto Blueshirts of the NHA where he scored 25 goals in 18 games and he had his best season in 1916–17, scoring 41 goals in 19 games, finishing tied for the league lead with Joe Malone. In 1919–20 he scored 26 goals and 15 assists in just 23 games, then had a further 6 goals in 5 playoff games, Nighbor would win the Stanley Cup again with Ottawa in 1921,1923, and 1927. Late in the 1925 season, Lady Byng, wife of the Governor-General of Canada and she showed Nighbor an ornate trophy and asked him if he thought the NHL would accept it as an award for its most gentlemanly player. Nighbor said he thought it would be a good idea—and to his surprise, Lady Byng presented him the trophy on the spot, a year earlier, he had been the first winner of the Hart Trophy. In 1929–30, Nighbor was traded to Toronto, as part of the sale of the failing Senators for Danny Cox. He played 22 games for the Maple Leafs and retired in the off-season, Nighbor was considered a master of the sweep check, as well as the poke check, an almost entirely different action, taking the puck off the opponents stick. He was skilled and crafty with the puck and a good scorer. Nighbor coached for the Buffalo Bisons and London Tecumsehs of the International League and the New York Rovers of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League. He would later turn to a business he was a partner in. Nighbor died of cancer on April 13,1966 in Pembroke, Nighbor was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947. He has also inducted into the Canada Sports Hall of Fame. In 1998 he was ranked number 100 on The Hockey News list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players, in March 2010, at a Quebec auction, an American collector paid $33,000 USD to secure Frank Nighbors game-worn Ottawa Senators sweater from the 1926–27 season. A street in Ottawas Kanata neighbourhood is named in memory of Nighbor - Frank Nighbor Place, the Top 100, NHL players of all time. Players, the ultimate A-Z guide of everyone who has played in the NHL. Doubleday Canada. Notes Frank Nighbors biography at Legends of Hockey Frank Nighbors career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database Frank Nighbor at Find a Grave

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Smokey Harris
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Thomas Wilfred Smokey, Fred Harris was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Harris played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, the National Hockey League, Harris was born in Port Arthur, Ontario. His brother Henry was also an ice hockey player. Harris scored the first goal in Boston Bruins franchise history, Harris first played senior hockey with the Kenora Thistles in the 1909–10 season. In 1911, he joined the Vancouver Millionaires of the PCHA and he played four seasons for Portland. Portland won the PCHA championship in 1916, briefly taking over the Stanley Cup before losing it in the 1916 Stanley Cup Finals to the Montreal Canadiens, after Portland folded, Harris returned to the Millionaires, playing another five seasons. With Vancouver, Harris played in the 1921 and 1923 Stanley Cup series and he played six games for the Bruins before being traded again, to the Vancouver Maroons of the WCHL, the renamed Millionaires franchise. His final season was 1931–32 for the San Francisco Rangers and he was briefly playing coach for Richfield Oil in 1925–26, and coached a full season for the Hollywood Millionaires in 1929–30

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King Clancy
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Francis Michael King Clancy was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, referee, coach and executive. Clancy played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators and he was a member of three Stanley Cup championship teams and won All-Star honours. After he retired in 1937, he remained in hockey, becoming a coach for the Montreal Maroons, Clancy next worked as a referee for the NHL. He joined the Maple Leafs organization and worked in the organization as a coach, on January 1,2017, in a ceremony prior to the Centennial Classic, Clancy was part of the first group of players to be named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history. Clancys nickname King originates from his father, who was the first King Clancy, at the time the football was not snapped as is done today, but was heeled back from the line. Franks father was good at this and was named King of the Heelers or King for short. This nickname was transferred to Frank. Although he was one of the smallest defencemen of his era, he was tough and fast, according to Brian McFarlane, it was said that King Clancy started a thousand fights and never won one. During a March 31,1923, Stanley Cup game against the Edmonton Eskimos, in the third period, goaltender Clint Benedict was given a two-minute penalty. At the time, goalies served their own penalties, not wanting to leave the net open, Clancy played goal for the two minutes Benedict was gone. In his second season with the Leafs, Clancy helped his team win the Stanley Cup, after a slow start to the 1936–37 season, Clancy announced his retirement six games into the season. He retired as the top scoring defenceman in NHL history, with 136 career goals, in Clancys last game, he represented the Montreal Maroons at the Howie Morenz Memorial Game in 1937. The season after his retirement as a player, Clancy briefly coached the Montreal Maroons before beginning an 11-year stint as an NHL referee, in 1949, the Montreal Canadiens hired Clancy to coach their American Hockey League farm team, the Cincinnati Mohawks. He was released after two losing seasons, and rejoined the Maple Leaf family as coach of the Leafs AHL affiliate, the Pittsburgh Hornets. The Hornets had two outstanding seasons under Clancy, winning the Calder Cup as league champions in 1951–52, and nearly repeating the following year, on the strength of that performance, Clancy was made coach of the Maple Leafs for the 1953–54 season. He held the job for three years, but the team struggled, with each season worse than the one before it. He was then given the title assistant general manager by his friend, Conn Smythe, Clancy was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958. He remained assistant general manager-coach through the 1960s, working under Punch Imlach, when Imlach was fired in 1969, Clancy initially said that hed leave with him, but he was persuaded to stay with the Leafs and was made vice-president

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Ottawa Senators
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The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the Senators play their home games at the 18,694 seat Canadian Tire Centre which opened in 1996. Founded and established by Ottawa real estate developer Bruce Firestone, the team is the second NHL franchise to use the Ottawa Senators name. The original Ottawa Senators, founded in 1883, had a history, winning 11 Stanley Cups. On December 6,1990, after a public campaign by Firestone, the NHL awarded a new franchise. The current team owner is Eugene Melnyk, and in 2016, the club has been regularly represented in the top half in attendance in the NHL. Ottawa had been home to the original Senators, a founding NHL franchise, the NHL team was unsuccessful in St. Louis, and planned to return to Ottawa, but the NHL decided instead to suspend the franchise and transfer the players to other NHL teams. His firm, Terrace Investments, did not have the assets to finance the expansion fee and the team. Public support was high and the group would secure over 11,000 season ticket pledges, on December 12,1990, the NHL approved a new franchise for Firestones group, to start play in the 1992–93 season. The new team hired former NHL player Mel Bridgman, who had no previous NHL management experience, when Sutter was eventually signed to coach the Boston Bruins, Ottawa signed Rick Bowness, the man Sutter replaced in Boston. The new Senators played their first game on October 8,1992, the Senators defeated the Canadiens 5–3 in one of the few highlights that season. The Senators had aimed low and considered the 1992–93 season a small success, the long term plan was to finish low in the standings for its first few years in order to secure high draft picks and eventually contend for the Stanley Cup. Bridgman was fired after one season and Team President Randy Sexton took over the general manager duties, Firestone himself soon left the team and Rod Bryden emerged as the new owner. The strategy of aiming low and securing a high position did not change. The Senators finished last overall for the three seasons. Alexei Yashin, the teams first-ever draft selection from 1992, emerged as one of the NHLs brightest young stars, as the 1995–96 season began, star centre Alexei Yashin refused to honour his contract and did not play. Rick Bowness was fired in late 1995 and was replaced by the Prince Edward Island Senators head coach Dave Allison, Allison would fare no better than his predecessor, and the team would stumble to a 2–22–3 record under him. Sexton himself was fired and replaced by Pierre Gauthier, the former assistant GM of Anaheim, Martin outlasted several general managers and a change in ownership

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Edmonton Eskimos
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The Edmonton Eskimos are a professional Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta, competing in the West Division of the Canadian Football League. The Eskimos play their games at The Brick Field at Commonwealth Stadium and are the third-youngest franchise in the CFL. The Eskimos were founded in 1949, although there were clubs with the name Edmonton Eskimos as early as 1895 and this includes a three-peat between 1954 and 1956 and an unmatched five consecutive wins between 1978 and 1982, and most recently in 2015. The Eskimos hold a North American professional sports record by qualifying for the playoffs for 34 consecutive years between 1972 and 2005, Edmonton has had the most regular season division championships in the modern era with 21, with their most recent coming in 2015. The team has a rivalry with the Calgary Stampeders and are one of the three community owned teams currently operating in the CFL. Founded,1949, although other teams named the Edmonton Eskimos existed 1895 to 1923 and 1929 to 1939 Formerly known as, The Esquimaux 1897 to 1910 and this was once the most common type of ownership in the CFL. In 2006 the Ottawa Sun reported that shares cost $10 each and this contrasts with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, one of the other community owned teams in the CFL, who have offered shares to the public. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are the community owned team. Edmonton Eskimos, Inc. is governed by a board of directors. The board consists of a chairman, treasurer, secretary six directors, the clubs president and CEO is Len Rhodes, he is not currently a member of the board. The story of teams name back to stories in the press from at least 1903 and possibly as far back as 1892. It is a legacy of the rivalry between the cities of Edmonton and Calgary, the so-called Battle of Alberta. In the early years of competition between the cities, the press in each town used colourful nicknames to insult the rival teams home. Edmontonian writers called Calgary the cow camp, horse country, or the village beside the Bow. Likewise Calgarys responded with insults about Edmontons northern latitude and frigid weather, the name remained an unofficial nickname, however until the arrival in Edmonton of American baseball coach and sports promoter William Deacon White in 1907. White founded the Edmonton Eskimos baseball team in 1909, the football Eskimos in 1910, of the three, only the football teams name has survived. Edmonton played its first series of organized games with the formation of the Alberta Rugby Football Union in 1895, in 1897 the name Esquimaux was adopted. In 1910 the club was named the Edmonton Eskimos

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Clint Benedict
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Clinton Stevenson Praying Benny Benedict was a Canadian professional Lacrosse goalie, ice hockey goaltender who played for the Ottawa Senators and the Montreal Maroons. He played on four Stanley Cup-winning squads and he was the first goaltender in the National Hockey League to wear a face mask. He led league goaltenders in shutouts seven times over his professional career and he is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Benedict played for the Ottawa Stars Lacrosse Club, winning the City Championship in 1911 and he later played professionally with the Ottawa Capitals Lacrosse Club earning distinction for his tenacity under fire. This helped him immeasurably in his transition into professional hockey, Benedict was one of the first great goalies in professional hockey and a great innovator in the sport. He was the first goalie to drop to his knees to stop the puck along the ice, at the time and this earned him the nickname Praying Benny. The first rule change the NHL made legalized his playing style, Benedict joined the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey Association in the 1912–13 season. Although the Senators had at the time future Hall of Famer Percy LeSueur as their starting goaltender and he played one more season as backup to LeSueur and took over as starting goaltender in the 1914–15 season. He led the league in Goals Against Average that season and the two seasons to start his career. He played 12 seasons overall for the Senators, after winning three Stanley Cups with the Senators, his career changed in the 1923–24 season. Benedict developed a problem with drinking, which at first was kept secret by the Senators, Benedict occasionally played for the Senators while under the effects. In the playoffs, Benedict and the Senators played poorly and were quickly eliminated, management withheld some of his salary for his behaviour. Benedict sued the team in return and the Senators countersued, revealing in court documents the extent of Benedicts behaviour, once the Ottawa papers found out about the court case, the secret was out. The two sides quickly settled to minimize the publicity, Benedicts career with the Senators was finished. On October 20,1924, Benedict was traded along with Punch Broadbent to the expansion Montreal Maroons and it was a new lease on life for Benedict who played for six seasons with the Maroons. In 1926, he won another Stanley Cup with the Maroons, on January 7,1930, he was hit by a shot from Howie Morenz in the face, breaking the bridge of his nose. Benedict was out of action for six weeks and he returned on February 20,1930 against the New York Americans wearing the mask. He played with a mask for five games in total and according to Douglas Hunter and his last game wearing a mask was on March 4,1930 when he got hit in the face during a goal-mouth scramble

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Centre (ice hockey)
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The centre in ice hockey is a forward position of a player whose primary zone of play is the middle of the ice, away from the side boards. Centres have more flexibility in their positioning and are expected to cover more ice surface than any other player, centres are ideally stronger, faster skaters who can back check quickly from deep in the opposing zone. Generally, centres are expected to be gifted passers more so than goal scorers and they are also expected to have exceptional ice vision, intelligence, and creativity. They also generally are the most defensively oriented forwards on the ice, centres usually play as part of a line of players that are substituted frequently to keep fresh and keep the game moving. First-liners are usually the top players, although some top players make the line to allow for offensive scoring opportunities. Centres are required to cover much of the ice in all three zones, where the centre tends to play in the offensive zone is usually a matter of coaching and personal preference. Centres are responsible for keeping the flow of the moving, and generally handle. Because of this, most good centres tend to score rather than goals because the play goes through them as they try to find open teammates. Because the range of offensive styles teams like to use, exactly how centres are used in the zone is as varied as the players themselves. Generally the centres role on offence is to move the offence through himself, setting up other players and they roam around most areas of the ice in the zone and have a lot of freedom in decision making. They are also expected to constantly be in motion causing defenders to have a time tracking them. Zone Entry The matter of bringing the puck in the zone generally is accomplished in two ways, the first involves the teams best puck carrier using his speed and quickness to cross the blue line with the puck and set up the offence. Once the puck is freed the offence can then set up as normal, behind the net When a centres winger is being attacked along the boards, the centre can take position behind the net to receive the pressured wingers pass. Behind the net is a place for some centres to play. It is a difficult position to defend because it forces the opposing defencemen to leave the front of the net. It also gives the centre a view of the ice. From here the centre has clear passing lanes and minimizes the distance, in the slot Many centres use their mobility and freedom to take advantage of the slot area, the area in between the faceoff dots, about 5 to 15 feet from the goal. The slot area is notorious goalscoring territory because of its proximity to the net, centres like this area because of its openness

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Winger (ice hockey)
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Winger, in the game of ice hockey, is a forward position of a player whose primary zone of play on the ice is along the outer playing area. They typically work by flanking the centre forward, originally the name was given to forward players who went up and down the sides of the rink. Nowadays, there are different types of wingers in the game — out-and-out goal scorers, checkers who disrupt the opponents and they tend to be bigger than centreman and smaller than defenceman. This position is referred to by the side of the rink that the winger normally takes. On the backcheck, it is essential that they cover the last free opposing player rushing in, once the puck is controlled by the opposing team in the defensive zone, however, wingers are responsible for covering the defenceman on their side of the ice. Prior to the puck being dropped for a face-off, players other than taking the face-off must not make any physical contact with players on the opposite team. After the puck is dropped, it is essential for wingers to engage the players to prevent them from obtaining possession of the puck. Once a team has established control of the puck, wingers can set themselves up into an appropriate position, some wingers are also employed to handle faceoffs. Rover Centre Defenceman Forward Goaltender Power forward List of NHL players

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Jack Darragh
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John Proctor Jack Darragh was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Darragh played the position for the Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League. Darragh was a member of four Stanley Cup championship teams and a NHA championship team, Darragh played his entire professional career with the Ottawa Senators. He was a big part of their success, winning four Stanley Cups and he retired after that Cup win, but returned after one season to play for the Cup-winning team of 1922–23, the third in four seasons, all with Darragh in the lineup. He retired after the 1923–24 season and died a few months due to peritonitis. Stanley Cup champion,1911,1920,1921,19231963 - Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, list of ice hockey players who died during their playing career Hockey Hall of Fame. Honoured Members, Hockey Hall of Fame, Jack Darraghs biography at Legends of Hockey Jack Darragh career statistics at EliteProspects. com Jack Darraghs career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database Jack Darragh at Find a Grave

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Defenceman
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Defence in ice hockey is a player position whose primary responsibility is to prevent the opposing team from scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D-men or blueliners, a good defenceman is both strong in defensive and offensive play and for defenceman pairing also need to be good at defending and attacking. In regular play, two defencemen complement three forwards and a goaltender on the ice, organized play of ice hockey originates from the first indoor game in Montreal in 1875. In subsequent years, the players per side were reduced to seven per side, positions were standardized, and two correspond to the two defencemen of current six-man rules. These were designated as cover point and point, although they lined up behind the center, decades later, defencemen were standardized into playing left and right sides of the ice. According to one of the earliest books on ice hockey, Farrells Hockey, Canadas Royal Winter Game, Mike Grant of the Montreal Victorias and he should not stray too far from his place, because oftentimes he is practically a second goal-minder. Although he should remain close to his goal-keeper, he should never obstruct that mans view of the puck, in his capacity of a defence player, he should linger around his goals as long as the puck is near. It is by playing far up under these circumstances that a clever cover-point can chine to the advantage of his team. If he has an opening he should shoot well for the goals. Each year the NHL, the ice hockey league in the world. Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins – an eight-time Norris Trophy recipient – is often considered to be the greatest defenceman in NHL, in addition to his Norris Trophy honours, he is the only defenceman in NHL history to capture the Art Ross Trophy as the leagues leading scorer. In 1998, Orr was selected as the best defenceman of all-time in The Hockey News Top 100 NHL Players of all-time, conversely, according to the IIHF Centennial All-Star Team, the greatest defencemen to play in IIHF-sanctioned international competition are Vyacheslav Fetisov and Börje Salming. Defence players are often described by the amount they participate in the offence, the extreme of non-participation in offence is a Stay-at-home defender, who takes few risks and does not score much, instead focusing on defending against the opposing team. The extreme of participation is a defenceman, who gets aggressively involved in the teams offence. To accomplish this, the defence player often pinches in to keep the play from going offside and moves towards the halfboards. This makes it difficult for the team to protect their net from being scored upon if the team can maintain control of the puck. However, this can lead to more odd man rushes and breakaway opportunities for the team if the defender does not succeed. Bobby Orrs end-to-end rushing allowed him to defend effectively as well as attack, by contrast, Paul Coffey enjoyed high offensive production but his defensive play was considered mediocre for most of his career

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Goaltender
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In ice hockey, the goaltender is the player responsible for preventing the hockey puck from entering their teams net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring. The goaltender usually plays in or near the area in front of the net called the goal crease, goaltenders tend to stay at or beyond the top of the crease to cut down on the angle of shots. In todays age of goaltending there are two styles, butterfly and hybrid. Because of the power of shots, the goaltender wears special equipment designed to protect the body from direct impact, the goalie is one of the most valuable players on the ice, as their performance can greatly change the outcome or score of the game. One-on-one situations, such as breakaways and shootouts, have the tendency to highlight a goaltenders pure skill, only one goaltender is allowed to be on the ice for each team at any given time. The goaltender is also known as the goalie, goaler, goalkeeper, net minder, in the early days of the sport, the term was spelled with a hyphen as goal-tender. The art of playing the position is called goaltending and there are coaches, the variation goalie is typically used for items associated with the position, such as goalie stick and goalie pads. Goaltending is a position in ice hockey, at higher levels in the game, no goalies play other positions. A typical ice hockey team may have two or three goaltenders on its roster, the NHL requires each team have a list of emergency goalies. The list provides goalie options for both the home and visiting teams and these goalies are to be called to a game if a team does not have two goalies to start the game. An emergency goalie may also be called if both roster goalies are injured in the same game, Jennings Trophy for fewest goals allowed. Martin Brodeur was the first goaltender in the National Hockey League to score a game-winning goal, the goaltender has special privileges and training that other players do not. He or she wears special goaltending equipment that is different from that worn by players and is subject to specific regulations. Goalies may use any part of their bodies to block shots, the goalie may legally hold the puck with his hands to cause a stoppage of play. If a player from the team hits the goaltender without making an attempt to get out of his way. In some leagues, if a goalies stick breaks, he can continue playing with a stick until the play is stopped. Additionally, if a goaltender acts in such a way that would cause a player to be given a penalty, such as slashing or tripping another player. Instead, one of the teammates who was on the ice at the time of the infraction is sent to the penalty box in his or her place

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Ted Dey
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Edwin Peter Ted Dey was a boat-builder, ice arena owner, and hockey team owner. He was an owner of the Ottawa Senators mens ice hockey club from 1917 until 1923 and he and his brothers Frank Edgar Dey and William Ernest Dey built the various Deys Arenas where the Senators played until 1922–23. Born in Hull, Quebec, Ted Dey was one of three brothers and two born to Joseph Dey and Annie Buckley. His father was a boat-builder in Ottawa, the brothers, William, Frank and Ted followed their father into the boat-building business. The business, now named Dey Brothers had a works on the Rideau Canal at Theodore Street. The Dey brothers built their first indoor skating rink next to the works in 1884. The brothers would become involved in the new sport of ice hockey at their rink. Ted Dey himself played games for the Ottawa Hockey Club in 1887,1889 and 1890, the rink would also become home to its own team the Deys Rink Pirates, founding members of the Ottawa City Hockey League in 1890. The building of the Canada Atlantic Railway tracks along the Rideau Canal as far north as Rideau Street meant the demolition of the works in 1895. The brothers built a new works at Patterson Creek and Bank Street. The Deys Skating Rink was the location of the first Stanley Cup win for the Ottawa Hockey Club, a third arena was built near the original skating rink, on the opposite bank of the Rideau Canal, and was known as The Arena, opening in 1907. The second skating rink was demolished in 1920 after a fire. In 1916, Dey first became involved in the management of the club and he imposed cost-cutting measures and fired the coach Alf Smith and gave the coaching duties to player Eddie Gerard. In 1917, he bought a share of the club, along with Martin Rosenthal and Tommy Gorman. In 1919, he forced Rosenthal out and became majority owner, during his ownership, the Senators won three Stanley Cups, in 1920,1921 and 1923. Dey could not bear to watch the games of the 1923 Final, after the 1923 championship, Dey sold his ownership of the club and retired. He went to live in New York city, and eventually moved in 1932 to New Westminster and his father died in 1904 and his mother in 1920. His brother William died in 1920 and his older brother Frank survived him by a few months, passing away in July 1943

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Tommy Gorman
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Gorman was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He was one of six born to Thomas Patrick Gorman. He was a page boy as a youth, but sports were his love. He was the youngest member of the Canadian lacrosse team won the gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He then played professionally for a number of seasons, Gorman became a sports writer at the Ottawa Citizen, eventually becoming the sports editor. He worked at the newspaper until 1921, even though he had never played hockey, Mr. Gorman was a talented evaluator of talent. Ted Dey, principal owner of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey Association, had trouble recruiting players for the 1916–17 season and he did it so capably that he was hired as secretary-treasurer. Gorman became the manager and part-owner of the Senators at that time and he helped lead the team to Stanley Cups in 1920,1921, and 1923. He sold his interest in the Senators in 1925 to Frank Ahearn and became manager-coach of the New York Americans and he resigned from the Americans in 1929 to get involved in horse racing. He managed the Agua Caliente Racetrack in Mexico from 1929 until 1932, in 1932, Gorman brought the horse Phar Lap to Mexico where the horse won the $100,000 Agua Caliente Handicap before dying under mysterious circumstances in San Francisco. When the president of Agua Caliente sold the racetrack in 1932 and he took the team from last place in their division in 1932–33 to their first Stanley Cup victory in 1934—despite scoring the fewest goals of any NHL team. Ten days after the Cup victory, Gorman resigned after a dispute with the owner and he went to Montreal as their manager-coach and helped the Montreal Maroons to their final Cup in 1935, thus becoming the first coach to win consecutive Stanley Cups with different teams. Gorman coached the Maroons until the club folded in 1938, in 1940, he became general manager of the Montreal Canadiens and lead them to Cup victories in 1944 and 1946. He is the person to manage four different teams to championships. No other General Manager in the history of the NHL, Major League Baseball, one of his flops was after he became manager-coach of the Montreal Maroons when he booked evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson at the Montreal Forum. No one wanted to be saved, he explained, however, some of his better promotions came when he was the Montreal Canadiens general manager. He had Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra perform at the Forum, after retiring as general manager of the Canadiens in 1946, Gorman bought the Ottawa Senators of the Quebec Senior Hockey League, managing it to win the Allan Cup in 1949. He took figure skater Barbara Ann Scott on a tour after she won the figure skating gold medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics

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T. Franklin Ahearn
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Thomas Franklin Ahearn, also known as Frank Ahearn was a Canadian businessman and politician. Ahearn is best known as an owner of the original Ottawa Senators National Hockey League hockey club, Ahearn was born in Ottawa, the son of Thomas Ahearn and Lilias Fleck. His father was a prominent Ottawa citizen who owned Ottawa Electric and he was educated at Kent Street Public School, Ottawa Collegiate and privately tutored. Around 1900, he organized the Buena Vista hockey team played on an open-air rink at Laurier Avenue and Bronson. In 1909, he married Norah Lewis, granddaughter of John Travers Lewis and he served in World War I, as a captain in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, from 1914 until 1916, when he was injured and returned home. Mr. Ahearn became involved with the Ottawa Senators in the period when they won three Stanley Cups in four years between 1920 and 1923, in 1924, he bought out majority owner Tommy Gorman. In 1926-27, the Senators won the Cup with one of the most impressive rosters ever assembled and this imposing collection included Jack Adams, King Clancy, Alec Connell, Cy Denneny, Frank Finnigan, Hec Kilrea, Frank Nighbor and Hooley Smith. Winning the Stanley Cup was the last hurrah for the franchise, Louis Eagles, and operated the Senators as an amateur/semi-professional senior club. After one season in St. Louis, the Ottawa owners sought to suspend operations again and were turned down by the league, in the years of his owning the Ottawa Senators, his losses were over $200,000, a loss he said he never regretted. At the time of the dissolution of the NHL franchise, Ahearn was a minority owner of the consortium which owned the Ottawa Auditorium arena, like his father, Ahearn was involved in politics, and was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1930 and 1935. Ahearn was a vice-president of the Ottawa Light, Heat and Power Company, in 1940, he resigned to become president of the Ottawa Electric Company. He also had his own firm, Rowatt-Ahearn Ltd. and became president of the Ottawa Electric Railway Company in 1938 after his father died and he was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962 as a builder. He was inducted into the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame in 1966, Ahearn died in 1962 at his home at 7 Rideau Gate, Ottawa, and was interred in Beechwood Cemetery. He was survived by his wife Norah, son Thomas Trevor, T. Franklin Ahearn – Parliament of Canada biography Frank Ahearns biography at Legends of Hockey

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Pacific Coast Hockey Association
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The PCHA was considered to be a major league of ice hockey and was important in the development of the sport of professional ice hockey through its innovations. The league was started by the Patrick family, professional players from Montreal, building new arenas in Vancouver and Victoria. After a few years of play, the league was accepted by the Stanley Cup trustees as being of a high standard that teams from its league were accepted for Stanley Cup challenges. Starting in 1915, the league entered into an agreement where the Stanley Cup was to be contested between the National Hockey Association and the PCHA after the seasons were finished. The league struggled to make money, and various teams moved into different cities in an attempt to be successful financially, eventually, the league, to survive, merged with the WCHL in 1924. After playing for the Renfrew Millionaires in 1910, players Frank Patrick and Lester Patrick moved west to Nelson, after Joe decided to sell the business in January 1911, the Patricks decided then to form a new professional ice hockey league, risking the family fortune. The decision was made to put new rinks in Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, locations which necessitated the use of artificial ice, three teams, the New Westminster Royals, the Victoria Senators, and the Vancouver Millionaires would be formed. The Patricks moved quickly, buying property for the arenas in February, ground was broken for the arenas in April and the arenas were completed in December. Victorias arena seated 4,000, and cost $110,000, all players were paid by the league, unlike the NHA with its competing teams. The PCHA distributed players amongst the teams, Newsy Lalonde of the Canadiens would be the most notable player to move west, to play for Vancouver. The league was organized on December 7,1911 to be run by Frank and Lester. The Victoria arena would open to the public on Christmas Day 1911, the first league championship for the Patterson Cup trophy was won by the New Westminster Royals. The league did not challenge for the Stanley Cup the first year, despite the raiding of the NHA, a March 1912 west coast tour of the NHAs all-stars was arranged, billed as a sort of World Series of hockey. The NHA all-stars included Cyclone Taylor, a name in the East. After the PCHA all-stars won the first two games 10–4 and 5–1, leaving the outcome in no doubt, the NHA manager Art Ross decided to let Taylor play at the Patricks request. Taylor would put on a display of ice hockey prowess for the British Columbia fans. For the 1912–13 season the PCHA continued to raid the east for players, besides Taylor, Goldie Prodgers, Eddie Oatman, Jack McDonald and Ernie Johnson moved out west, although Newsy Lalonde returned to Montreal. The New Westminster rink, to be built by local interests, was not ready, Victoria would win the season and the club arranged for an exhibition series of the Stanley Cup champion Quebec Bulldogs

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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker

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1893 Stanley Cup championship
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The season ended on March 17, but Montreal was officially presented with the trophy on May 15. In April 1893, the Stanley Cup was ready for presentation for its first winners, the trustees, P. D. Ross and John Sweetland, made preparations to present the Cup to the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association. The Cup would be presented to the MAAA on May 15,1893, MAAA president James A. Taylor refused both demands and the MAAA board of directors met and agreed to accept the trophy at the annual meeting. The Cup was presented to MAAA president Taylor, instead of MHC president James Stewart, the Cup remained in the possession of the MAAA. At the same meeting that the MAAA had accepted the Cup. Paton raised the matter of the refusal in November to the MAAA, at that time, the MHC made a request for a loan of $175 to cover season start-up expenses. The MAAA refused the loan, apparently the first time that the MAAA had refused the MHC any request. Cup trustee Ross replied that they were willing to receive any advice to aid in the execution of Lord Stanleys wish to present this Cup to the champions of the Dominion. The Cup transfer was settled in February 1894 when Ross travelled to Montreal to attend the AHAC meetings and attend a game with his brother Jim Ross. Ross met with MHC president Stewart as well, after the meetings, letters from Sweetland and Ross were sent to both the MAAA and to the MHC. The Club received the trophy between March 5 and March 15,1894, but the matter did not end there. On March 22, MHC defeated Ottawa to retain the trophy, the Club, per the Cup conditions, arranged to have its name engraved on the Cup. The engraving was simply Montreal 1894, omitting the MAAA of the 1893 engraving, the MAAA board attempted to effect a compromise whereby the Club would become a department of the Association but this was defeated. The Club instead decided instead to become an affiliate of the MAAA on its own terms, the MAAA refused the application to affiliate the Club, as all members of the Club were already MAAA members. 1893 During the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals, the Montreal Canadiens and the Los Angeles Kings wore commemorative patches on their jerseys in honor of one hundred years of the Stanley Cup

A delayed penalty call situation, in which the referee (top-left) indicates a coming penalty by raising his arm, and prepares to blow the whistle when a player from the team to be penalized (in white) touches the puck. Goaltender Jere Myllyniemi can be seen (right) rushing to the bench to send on an extra attacker.